6th International Conference on Multimodality

Dates of Event: 22nd August 2012 - 24th August 2012

Description
Hosted by the Centre for Multimodal Research, the NCRM node:  MODE (Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data and Environments) and the Institute of Education 

Key Notes:
• Sigrid Norris, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
• John Knox, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Arlene Archer, University of Capetown, South Africa
• Lorenza Mondada University of Lyon, France
• Gunther Kress & colleagues at IOE Centre for Multimodal Research

We envisage a broad based interpretation of multimodality and welcome papers from across various fields of application - including health, work and occupations, art, media and marketing, games and play, education, tourism, and business. Whilst we expect many of the papers will come under the following sub-headings these are not designed to be exhaustive or limiting:
• Identity
• Practical applications of multimodality
• Social justice 
• Methodological challenges
• Historical perspectives on multimodality
• Video based research
• Embodiment and physicality
• Developments of concepts and theory
• Space and place
• Multimodality and ethics
• Technology and multimodality
• Approaches to analyzing multimodal data
• Interdisciplinary multimodal work 

Call for papers
We welcome symposia, individual papers and workshops.  Abstract submission forms are available below. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Deadline 5pm on 1 March 2012.   

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